For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia
I mean, just because youre a musician doesnt mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. – Jerry Garcia
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. – Jerry Garcia
I dont know why, its the same reason why you like some music and you dont like others. Theres something about it that you like. Ultimately I dont find its in my best interests to try and analyze it, since its fundamentally emotional. – Jerry Garcia
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion